Single is often considered synonymous with uniquely flawed when you’re a woman. There are many disparaging blanket statements made about single people. But such generalizations are most frequently applied to women. People often consider single men bachelors just having fun and enjoying life. Outsiders believe they’re single by choice, not Read more…
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Consistency is a love language. It separates the opportunists from the committed. -Acamea Deadwiler I wrote that quote because I believe that inconsistency is a form of emotional abuse. Don’t let people near your heart with this toxic behavior. People loved the quote so much that I also put it Read more…
The importance of learning how to be alone may go unnoticed. You may fear loneliness, but these two states are not synonymous. A couple of years ago, I went to San Francisco alone for a conference. Since it was my first time visiting, I decided that I’d stay through the Read more…
You are enough. You are loved. You are a person of substance. You are complete, independent of whether or not you have a partner. I know this doesn’t always help. Self-assurance can’t hold you at night or join you for a movie. It can’t listen to you vent about work, Read more…
After reading so many self-help books, it starts to seem as though they’re all saying the same things: think positive—don’t let problems get you down—turn your lemons into lemonade. All great advice, but what’s sometimes missing is the “how?”
One of my favorite quotes is by Rumi, it says: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” This is one of my favorites because I believe it epitomizes the ultimate issue. Love is something that Read more…
One of the most common reasons I hear given for why people are single, especially women, is that their expectations are too high or unrealistic. This myth bothers me a bit more than the others— I cover it and more in my book, “Single That: Dispelling the Top 10 Myths Read more…
Our hormones and emotions sometimes do what they want with little regard for logic or purpose. I want to know that you chose me, and that you choose me again every day. Leave no room for doubt or indifference.
Seems there is no holiday topic more enticing than the love life of the single daughter, sister, aunt, or cousin. Everyone just has to know why she’s alone at the family dinner … Again.